Re: CVS newbie - I want to make a new CVS installation secure...

2004-05-19 Thread Steve deRosier
Flossie wrote: snip... 2) I'm suprised how much CVS docs emphasise the fact that multiple users can check out the same file and CVS can resolve conflicts as checkins occur. However there are problems with letting users resolve conflicts (they can get it wrong), and I doubt a system can be 100%

Re: Personal CVS repository?

2004-05-06 Thread Steve deRosier
In her place, what I would do is: 1. Keep two local workspaces. One is the checkout from the remote repository, the other is the checkout from the local personal repository. 2. Do all my work in the local one, checking in as necessary. 3. When I release to the remote repository, I would copy all

Re: CTRL-M and CTRL-J characters in files

2004-03-24 Thread Steve deRosier
The CVS client automatically handles the differences between Windows and UNIX line endings by converting the files when you do the checkout or update (or commit, or...). So, as unintuitive as it sounds, uncheck this option. Then you'll get the Windows line endings without those being imported

Re: CTRL-M and CTRL-J characters in files

2004-03-24 Thread Steve deRosier
) - Steve prolist wrote: But, isn't that option only about checkouts, what about check-ins I can't locate any poption specific to that. Thanks!!! - Original Message - From: Steve deRosier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: prolist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 1

Re: CVS on Samba

2004-01-28 Thread Steve deRosier
George, Putting the repository itself on a networked drive (Samba or NFS or others) is generally not recommended. Aparently there is a possiblity with data loss. If you're running a server anyway, I'd just run CVS from the same server and do the checkouts and such via the client-server

Re: A way to see who has checked out a module?

2004-01-13 Thread Steve deRosier
Again... this isn't going to tell you much. It basically gives you a log of certain activity with the system. I can run the same command and I get the following results: * I have 21 modules checked out. Of those 21, I only have directories in my sandbox for 15 of those (where did those

Re: A way to see who has checked out a module?

2004-01-12 Thread Steve deRosier
viewcvs - http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net/index.html It's what we use and we love it. - Steve Phil Labonte wrote: Is there a web add-on that we can use to see who has checked out a given module? I know you can use the command line but I have some users that would like to see who has checked

Re: cvs commit/up's change file ownership in working dir.

2004-01-06 Thread Steve deRosier
Scenario: N system admins. they checkout a machine's configuration into their private working directory. they all are not currently root (or I'll shoot them) and so the files are all owned by them with whatever default mode per standard (umask etc) procedure. They do their edits, check them into

Re: Read only access to cvs

2003-12-10 Thread Steve deRosier
Purushotham Komaravolu wrote: Hi, I am new to CVS administration.I need help in seting up the following. 1) Read only access to repository: Developers ger read/write access but QA and others get read-only access. As an alternative, give

Re: Please help..

2003-11-26 Thread Steve deRosier
David, Perhaps John could try this? A suggestion to untangle: 1. Create a repository properly. 2. Copy the .v.v files into the repository manually. 3. Checkout the files into a working directory. (getting a .v file) 4. Copy the .v files manually into the repository. 5. Checkout the files into a

Re: automatic checkout

2003-09-16 Thread Steve deRosier
How about a script on a cron job that periodically (whatever granularity you require from 1 minute to 1 day) checks to see if there's been any new updates and if so does an update to the production tree? Seems like a rather clunky work-arround, but it should at least get the results you're

Re: ViewCVS vs. CVSWeb with CVSNT

2003-08-10 Thread Steve deRosier
, but I've found the interface implmentation of that to be a bit clunky (it works well, but it's not always obvious what state you're in or how to change it to the one you want). - Steve JacobRhoden wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:40 am, Steve deRosier wrote: We use ViewCVS and we love it. We use

Re: ViewCVS vs. CVSWeb with CVSNT

2003-08-07 Thread Steve deRosier
We use ViewCVS and we love it. We use it for all sorts of things including tracking the CVS repository and just viewing source files in other projects (have you ever wanted a quick look or printout without checking out the module and opening it in an editor?). For best usage though, it is

Re: port not running!!!

2003-07-24 Thread Steve deRosier
If you're checking from an external box, don't forget to punch a hole in the server's firewall if one is running. A firewall that we didn't realize was running on our RH box tripped us up for a couple of hours. - Steve Kent Emia wrote: port not running!!! I ve checkec

Re: outsider's perspective

2003-05-27 Thread Steve deRosier
Phil, As you know, CVS doesn't version directories and frankly was never designed with that in mind (never mind the argument over if it should or should not, it simply doesn't). But...there is a program that does record directory structure: tar. Perhaps you could somehow use tar in

Re: outsider's perspective

2003-05-27 Thread Steve deRosier
, May 27, 2003 at 11:39:22 (-0700), Steve deRosier wrote: ] Subject: Re: outsider's perspective As you know, CVS doesn't version directories and frankly was never designed with that in mind (never mind the argument over if it should or should not, it simply doesn't). But...there is a program

Re: outsider's perspective

2003-05-27 Thread Steve deRosier
No concurrent versioning system with a shared repository, and particularly not one that can operate in a client/server mode, can ever possibly make any use of ownership, nor even of most permissions bits. Ownership information, and most permissions bits, MUST always be specific to the client and

RE: pserver login problem to Linux from Win2k

2002-10-31 Thread Steve deRosier
? Basically, my current fix is to only use one method, ie only do my work remotely using pserver. Thanks, - Steve -Original Message- From: Shankar Unni [mailto:shankar;cotagesoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:35 AM To: 'Steve deRosier' Subject: RE: pserver login problem

RE: pserver login problem to Linux from Win2k

2002-10-31 Thread Steve deRosier
than tried to get them to work together. Usually is a great idea to make sure two parts work by themselves first. Who knew? :) - Steve -Original Message- From: Kaz Kylheku [mailto:kaz;footprints.net]On Behalf Of Kaz Kylheku Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:12 PM To: Steve deRosier

pserver login problem to Linux from Win2k

2002-10-30 Thread Steve deRosier
be great. Thanks, - Steve -- Steve deRosier PianoDisc Design Engineer (916) 567- ext. 175 www.pianodisc.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs